Victoria line - operating between Walthamstow to Highbury & Islington and between Victoria to Brixton.

Waterloo & City - normal service.

The suspicious package in St Albans was left on a pavement, 80 yards from the station in Richmont Road.

Bomb-disposal experts were called to the scene, the station was evacuated and a cordon thrown around the area.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair urged Londoners to return to normal this afternoon in the aftermath of the latest outrage, but hundreds of thousands of people faced a nightmare journey home.